Bluegrass Newswire (Page 2)

"I'm cutting back," the last original member of the Seldom Scene said between signing CDs after the band's set Friday night at the DC Bluegrass Union festival in Tysons Corner, VA. Eldridge had just won DCBU's Washington Monument Award for lifetime achievement.
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Cleveland-area residents can say they survived the coldest February in recorded weather history and the second-coldest month ever. Northeast Ohio Media Group reports that Cleveland set records for the average daily low temperature in February at 5.2 degrees and the lowest average daily high temperature at 23.4 degrees.
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... at midnight." The overwhelming consensus for this clue across all levels of social media is for Minnesota-based bluegrass band Trampled by Turtles. The sign is slightly ambiguous and led to some people guessing "Terrapin Crossroads", which is a ...
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DCBU president Randy Barrett presented the 2015 Washington Monument Award to Ben Eldridge, banjo player of the Seldom Scene, during their amazing performance at the DCBU Bluegrass Festival last Friday night, February 27 2015. The award honors his 40 years of bluegrass as a founding and continuing member of the Seldom Scene.
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Wine and food lovers can expect to taste more than 50 high-end wines from around the world and indulge in tempting fare from 15 of the Midlands' finest restaurants. Event benefits the S.C. Philharmonic.
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... two longtime Ark favorites who are now husband and wife. Fleck is the founding banjoist of the seminal progressive bluegrass outfit New Grass Revival. Known for his penchant for pushing the bluegrass idiom in the direction of jazz, funk, and ...
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Bela Fleck is known around the world for being an amazing banjo player. He took bluegrass to new heights while performing in New Grass Revival and later mastered the mixing of bluegrass, jazz, and other styles while performing as Bela Fleck and the Fleckstones.
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Springer Mountain Farms has June and July at the world famous Ryman Auditorium packed with Thursday night bluegrass as they once again present Bluegrass Nights at the Ryman. This annual fare of bluegrass music is just the thing to make summers hotter than ever.
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What happens when you mix rock 'n' roll with a bluegrass band? Punk with folk lyrics? Skinny jeans with checkered flannel? Your closest bet: the Avett Brothers, the folk rock band from North Carolina who played an energetic show to a sold-out crowd at South Side Ballroom on Friday. The band's so popular here in Dallas that they stuck around to play a second sold-out show Saturday night.
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... ome the first pick in the 2014 NBA Draft, Andrew Wiggins. There aren't many farmers left in the country, let alone bluegrass musicians who are actually farmers. But Bradford Lee Folk has always been the real deal.
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... ! Kick off the month of March with award-winning guitarist and singer-songwriter Sean Watkins , member of the bluegrass group Nickel Creek among many bands he's performed with. He has ascended to the Grammy stage over his 25 year career and is on ...
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The Avett Brothers have included a stop in Simsbury, CT on their upcoming summer tour. The Americana group will perform at Simsbury Meadows Performing Arts Center on June 14 at 6:30 p.m. Simsbury Meadows is the state's second largest outdoor venue, with a capacity of 10,000.
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Louie Dampier is the fifth nominee directly elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame by the ABA Committee, joining Artis Gilmore , Mel Daniels , Roger Brown and Bobby "Slick" Leonard . I covered the Basketball Hall of Fame press conference five years ago when Jerry Colangelo, the Chairman of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Board, pledged that under his leadership the Basketball Hall of Fame would honor players and teams that had "slipped through the cracks."
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NewTown has inked a new business relationship with Moonstruck Management, the booking and management firm that handles stellar bluegrass acts including Dr. Ralph Stanley, Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out and Lonesome River Band. The dynamic NewTown band from Lexington, KY is led by gifted fiddler and singer, Kati Penn-Williams and husband, Jr. Williams.
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Bluegrass/Americana sensation Nu-Blu are pleased to announce their participation in the inaugural online Bluegrass Roundup on Saturday, Feb. 28 at 6pm EST. They will be performing a special one-hour set, which features every song from their latest album, All The Way.
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The Park City Institute will present bluegrass great Sam Bush at the Eccles Center for the Performing Arts, 1750 Kearns Blvd., on Saturday, Feb. 28, at 7:30 p.m. Bush, considered a pioneer of the newgrass revival, captivates his audiences with string-pickin' virtuosity and Grammy Award-winning vocals. While his music may be rooted in bluegrass, the "King of Telluride" also ventures into jazz, rock, blues, funk and beyond.
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